(5 Dec 2011)
AP TELEVISION
The Hague, Netherlands16:9
1. Wide shot on the International Court of Justice
2. Mid of UN flag
3. Various of Greece legal team
4. Various of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
5. Judges entering court room
6. Close of JudgeHisashi Owada, president of the court, telling court to sit
7. Wide of court sitting down
ICJ POOL
The Hague, Netherlands
4:3
8. Wide of court room
9. Mid of judges
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Hisashi Owada, President of the court:
"Two, by 15 votes to 1, finds that the Hellenic Republic by objecting the admission of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to NATO has breached its obligation under article 11, paragraph 1 of the internal accord on the 13th November1995."
11. Mid of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
AP TELEVISION
The Hague, Netherlands
16:9
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ioannis Economides, GreekAmbassador in the Netherlands:
"The court in its decision of today calls on the two parties to engage in meaningful negotiations under the UN auspices. Greece is ready to pursue this course of action and invites the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to do the same and to desist from using today's decision to subvert these negotiations as foreseen in the Security Council resolution."
13. Ambassador of Greece leaving the court
AP TELEVISION
Skopje, Macedonia
16:9
14. Wide of Macedonia President Geroge Ivanov with Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski (left) and Speaker of Parliament, Trajko Veljanoski
15. Close of Gruevski
16 . Close of Ivanov
17. Mid of Gruevski and Ivanov
18. Sign reading Republic of Macedonia and Macedonian flag
19. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) George Ivanov, President of Macedonia:
"Instead of blocking, the Republic of Greece should support our integration into international organisations as required by our agreement."
AP TELEVISION
Athens, Greece
16:9
20. Various of changing of the guards outside Parliament
21. Mid of Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and tourists
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Tzogopoulos, political analyst from the HellenicFoundation for European and Foreign Policy:
"This decision is not a straightforward one and it will not solve the whole discussion which is mainly based on the name issue and a mutually accepted solution which has to be found under the UN umbrella."
23. Wide of people in square
STORYLINE:
The world court ruled on Monday that Greece was wrong to block Macedonia's bid to join NATO in 2008 because of a long-running dispute over the fledgling country's use of the name Macedonia.
In a 15-1 ruling in The Hague, the court found that Greece's veto breached a 1995 deal under which Greece had agreed not to block Macedonia's membership in international organisations if it used the name "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia," or FYROM, while the matter was submitted to further negotiations.
More than 15 years later, mediation over the name is still unresolved.
The ruling was read out at the UN Court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, by Presiding Judge Hisashi Owada.
Although the question of Macedonia's name is sometimes seen as superficial by outsiders, it is a matter of deep concern for both sides.
The young country has used the name in one form or another since shortly after World War II, when it was a province of Yugoslavia, but Greece sees the use of the name as historically inaccurate at best and a potential threat to its territorial integrity at worst.
The victory is mostly symbolic but it may make it politically difficult for Greece to block Macedonia's entry into NATO if it reapplies.
It also lends moral weight to Macedonian protests that Greece's moves to block it from joining the European Union are unfair.
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Why are Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, locked in a name dispute for over two decades?
We take a look at the issue that is preventing this young nation from joining the EU and NATO.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/macedonia-name-dispute/29020750.html

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Here’s a look at the public unrest in Macedonia that could renew conflict between ethnic Albanian minority and the nation’s Macedonian majority.
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Macedonia in mourning after gun battle leaves 22 dead
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-macedonia-gun-battle-20150510-story.html
“The fighting has raised fears that the Balkans — still recovering from the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia and simmering ethnic tensions — is entering another phase of bitter ethnic violence. Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia were all once part of Yugoslavia, which dissolved in 1992.”
EU, NATO, U.N.Call for Calm in Macedonia
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-nato-u-n-call-for-calm-in-macedonia-1431365446
“Ethnic Albanians constitute the largest minority population in Macedonia, a country of just over two million people. According to the country’s last census in 2002, slightly more than 25% of the population was ethnic Albanian.”
Macedonia protests 'to continue' against PM Gruevski
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32776204
“In 2001, Macedonia was on the brink of civil war when armed rebels demanded greater rights for the Albanian minority, which makes up about a quarter of Macedonia's 2.1 million population.”
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Thousands of Roma living on the outskirts of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, are using Habitat for Humanity loans and help from a local partnership NGO to become legal residents and gain access to needed services and home improvements.
On the edges of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, there's a large Roma community housing over 5,000 people. Every one of these dwellings when they were built was done so illegally. They are not in danger of being knocked down or evicted, but their unofficial status creates problems for the Roma.
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The song is ΜΕ ΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΣΤΑΥΡΩΜΕΝΑ - me ta heria stavromena (with hands crossed) from Macedonian singer Vasilis Karras (ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΚΑΡΡΑΣ).
AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIANS:
"Although human rights principles are encoded in Macedonian law, their application remains selective and incomplete. This is partially a result of political and economic pressures in the southern Balkans, as well as of the countrys communist traditions. But at times, the current Macedonian government has been directly responsible for violating the rights of its citizens."
(Fred Williams, HelsinkiHuman Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 1)
"Albanian nationalists, led by the PDP, sponsored a referendum in January 1992 in support of cantonization. The result showed that 74 percent of those voting (put at 92 percent of those eligible to vote) supported territorial autonomy for Albanians in Macedonia. The state, however, refused to recognize the vote and declared it illegal."
(Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott, POLITICS, POWER, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, p 253)
"A major complaint of the ethnic Albanians concerns higher education in the Albanian language. An attempt in early 1995 to open a private Albanian-language university was deemed illegal by the state and ordered shut down. The initiative continued nonetheless, and an Albanian man was killed when police clashed with Albanians on the first day of classes. The organizers of the university were imprisoned for a brief period after a trial that failed to meet international standards the second such trial against a group of prominent ethnic Albanians in the past two years."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
AGAINST ORDINARY CITIZENS:
"But minority groups are not the only victims. All citizens of Macedonia suffer from the countrys weak democratic institutions, immature political parties and economic hardships. Despite the adoption of democratic legal standards, for example, there are still many violations of due process in Macedonian courts against all citizens regardless of their ethnicity. Defendants are sometimes held in detention for longer than the twenty-four hours allowed by Macedonian law, submitted to physical abuse, denied access to a lawyer or the right to a fair trial."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
Archbishop Jovan, citizen of Skopje, Serbian Orthodox clergyman put in Jail for denying a 'Macedonian' Church:
http://www.southeasteurope.org/subpage.php?sub_site=2&id=14827&head=hl&site=5
http://www.oca.org/News.asp?ID=1118&SID=19
"The political opposition has also complained about mistreatment by the state, including phone-tapping and police harassment."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
http://www.ex-yupress.com/mkdnevnik/mkdnevnik14.html
"Another problem in Macedonia involves freedom of the press. The state-run company Nova Makadonja still has a virtual monopoly on printing and distribution, which severely limits the possibilities for an independent press. In May 1995, the government closed eighty-eight private radio and television stations, especially some of the more influential minority stations, allegedly for technical reasons."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
VITAL INTERESTS OF THE NATION:
"Both the United States and Europe fear a spread of war to Macedonia since the conflict could draw in Greece and possibly Turkey, both members of NATO, as well as Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria. In the name of stability, however, both the U.N. and the OSCE tend to defend the status quo in Macedonia and downplay human rights violations within the country."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 3)

published:09 Aug 2009

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1. Convoy approach crash site
2. Various of Macedonia's Prime MinisterBranco Crvenkovski (with the beard and dark coat) and Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, at the crash site
3. Various of debris at the site
4. Crvenkovski lays flowers
5. Cutaway flags at the morgue
6. Various men at the site
7. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) Macedonia's Prime Minister Branco Crvenkovski:
"We don't know the results of the investigation. I understand the investigation is led by the Bosnian authorities. We have experts from Macedonia working on it. The investigation will be conducted in accordance with strict international rules. We need to determine what happened. We need to find what or who is responsible for what happened. Believe me, there is no way someone can escape responsibility for this. That's all I can say (in reference to a question about allegations that a FrenchNATO soldier in charge of air traffic control was responsible for misguiding the presidential plane)."
8. Wide shot reporters
9. Exterior morgue
STORYLINE:
Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski laid flowers on Sunday at the site where Macedonia's president and his entourage died when their plane crashed in the mountains of southern Bosnia.
Crvenkovski arrived in Bosnia on Saturday night to find out first hand how fast the identification process can be concluded and perhaps speed up the investigation into the cause of the crash.
PresidentBoris Trajkovski was en route to an international conference in Bosnia on Thursday when his twin-engine turboprop plane crashed in heavy fog, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Sarajevo.
Search teams struggled to locate the wreck and recover the bodies in the mountainous area amid bad weather and land mines left over from the Bosnian war.
Crvenkovski, accompanied by Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, defied heavy rain and wind to get to the site, where only a few metal parts laying around in the rocky terrain indicated the place of the accident.
In complete silence both laid flowers on the rocks near a piece of broken windshield.
The wreckage of the plane was taken on Saturday to the nearby Mostar airport for further investigation.
Forensic experts began carrying out a DNA analysis on the remains to positively identify the bodies, six of which were burned beyond recognition.
The identification process may take several days.
Bosnian and Macedonian experts were listening to a recording of the last conversation between the pilot and the French air traffic controllers working at the time at the Mostar airport.
More clues about the cause of the crash will come from the two black boxes found at the site.
So far it was early to say what may have caused the accident but Dzelal Hasecic, director of the Bosnian civil aviation authority, said that before the crash, the plane was "on a much lower altitude then it was supposed to be."
In the Macedonian capital, officials were awaiting the final forensic findings before officially setting a date for elections to elect a successor to Trajkovski, a 47-year-old moderate leader credited with helping defuse an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001.
Macedonia's government set up a panel of legal experts working to meet a constitutional requirement that the vote be held in 40 days.
The speaker of Macedonia's parliament, Ljupco Jordanovski, has been named interim acting president.
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Transparency InternationalMacedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the topic "Fight against Corruption in Macedonia in 2017". At the press conference, Slagjana Taseva PhD, President of TI-M pointed out that "The fight against corruption in the Republic of Macedonia is not at the necessary level to enable the development of democratic values and the rule of law. The escalation of this problem is best reflected in the country's tremendous decline in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, according to which it fell for 24 places - from the 66th to the lowest 90th place in the world. This result showed that corruption is a serious obstacle to the rule of law, the development of the economy, investment and democracy. "
The Republic of Macedonia is a society in which relations are based on clientelism. For a long time, a system has been built in which interests rather than law are governed, corrupts are protected and the negative effects of corruption are ignored.
In order to improve the situation, it is necessary to:
- Have well-planned, organized and efficient activity in the fight against corruption involving all stakeholders: the Government, the persecution institutions, the Parliament in its function of supervision and control, independent judiciary free from all influences, non-governmental organizations;
- Reforms in the StateCommission for Prevention of Corruption;
- Raising the collective consciousness which should be freed from the spirit of party obedience;
- The government should ensure full independence in the work of other authorities, in the Judicial and Legislative Authority. A precondition for this is to ensure the capacity, professionalism, resources and full independence of the PublicProsecution as a prosecution authority that should and must act independently of the policy;
- Reform of the administration should ensure integrity and personal responsibility with respect to the institutional setting established by the Constitution;
- To enable the smooth functioning of the Special Prosecution as a separate unit within the Public Prosecution in order to complete the already initiated pre-trial procedures;
- A court decree on cases such as “AFIS” and “Banks”, which have been in pre-trial procedure for years. A court decree is required for all cases run by the Special Public Prosecutor's Office.

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia (i/ˌmæsᵻˈdoʊniə/mas-i-DOH-nee-ə; Macedonian:Македонија, tr.Makedonija, IPA:[makɛˈdɔnija]), officially the Republic of Macedonia (Macedonian: Република Македонија, tr. Republika Makedonija), is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991. It became a member of the United Nations in 1993, but, as a result of an ongoing dispute with Greece over use of the name Macedonia, it was admitted under the provisional description of "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (Поранешна Југословенска Република Македонија, tr. Poranešna Jugoslovenska Republika Makedonija), abbreviated as FYROM.

Noun

A noun (from Latinnōmen, literally meaning "name") is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.Linguistically, a noun is a member of a large, openpart of speech whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.

Lexical categories (parts of speech) are defined in terms of the ways in which their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language. In English, nouns are those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase.

History

Word classes (parts of speech) were described by Sanskrit grammarians from at least the 5th century BC. In Yāska's Nirukta, the noun (nāma) is one of the four main categories of words defined.

Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or norms, that describe certain standards of human behavior, and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being," and which are "inherent in all human beings" regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time in the sense of being universal, and they are egalitarian in the sense of being the same for everyone. They require empathy and the rule of law and impose an obligation on persons to respect the human rights of others. They should not be taken away except as a result of due process based on specific circumstances; for example, human rights may include freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution.

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2:45

International Court rules on Greece and Macedonia name dispute

International Court rules on Greece and Macedonia name dispute

International Court rules on Greece and Macedonia name dispute

(5 Dec 2011)
AP TELEVISION
The Hague, Netherlands16:9
1. Wide shot on the International Court of Justice
2. Mid of UN flag
3. Various of Greece legal team
4. Various of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
5. Judges entering court room
6. Close of JudgeHisashi Owada, president of the court, telling court to sit
7. Wide of court sitting down
ICJ POOL
The Hague, Netherlands
4:3
8. Wide of court room
9. Mid of judges
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Hisashi Owada, President of the court:
"Two, by 15 votes to 1, finds that the Hellenic Republic by objecting the admission of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to NATO has breached its obligation under article 11, paragraph 1 of the internal accord on the 13th November1995."
11. Mid of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
AP TELEVISION
The Hague, Netherlands
16:9
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ioannis Economides, GreekAmbassador in the Netherlands:
"The court in its decision of today calls on the two parties to engage in meaningful negotiations under the UN auspices. Greece is ready to pursue this course of action and invites the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to do the same and to desist from using today's decision to subvert these negotiations as foreseen in the Security Council resolution."
13. Ambassador of Greece leaving the court
AP TELEVISION
Skopje, Macedonia
16:9
14. Wide of Macedonia President Geroge Ivanov with Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski (left) and Speaker of Parliament, Trajko Veljanoski
15. Close of Gruevski
16 . Close of Ivanov
17. Mid of Gruevski and Ivanov
18. Sign reading Republic of Macedonia and Macedonian flag
19. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) George Ivanov, President of Macedonia:
"Instead of blocking, the Republic of Greece should support our integration into international organisations as required by our agreement."
AP TELEVISION
Athens, Greece
16:9
20. Various of changing of the guards outside Parliament
21. Mid of Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and tourists
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Tzogopoulos, political analyst from the HellenicFoundation for European and Foreign Policy:
"This decision is not a straightforward one and it will not solve the whole discussion which is mainly based on the name issue and a mutually accepted solution which has to be found under the UN umbrella."
23. Wide of people in square
STORYLINE:
The world court ruled on Monday that Greece was wrong to block Macedonia's bid to join NATO in 2008 because of a long-running dispute over the fledgling country's use of the name Macedonia.
In a 15-1 ruling in The Hague, the court found that Greece's veto breached a 1995 deal under which Greece had agreed not to block Macedonia's membership in international organisations if it used the name "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia," or FYROM, while the matter was submitted to further negotiations.
More than 15 years later, mediation over the name is still unresolved.
The ruling was read out at the UN Court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, by Presiding Judge Hisashi Owada.
Although the question of Macedonia's name is sometimes seen as superficial by outsiders, it is a matter of deep concern for both sides.
The young country has used the name in one form or another since shortly after World War II, when it was a province of Yugoslavia, but Greece sees the use of the name as historically inaccurate at best and a potential threat to its territorial integrity at worst.
The victory is mostly symbolic but it may make it politically difficult for Greece to block Macedonia's entry into NATO if it reapplies.
It also lends moral weight to Macedonian protests that Greece's moves to block it from joining the European Union are unfair.
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2:18

Understanding The Macedonia Name Dispute

Understanding The Macedonia Name Dispute

Understanding The Macedonia Name Dispute

Why are Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, locked in a name dispute for over two decades?
We take a look at the issue that is preventing this young nation from joining the EU and NATO.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/macedonia-name-dispute/29020750.html

2:14

MACEDONIA IS GREEK - A law professor and legal advisor of FYROM government admits

MACEDONIA IS GREEK - A law professor and legal advisor of FYROM government admits

MACEDONIA IS GREEK - A law professor and legal advisor of FYROM government admits

Growing Fears Of Ethnic Violence In Macedonia

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Here’s a look at the public unrest in Macedonia that could renew conflict between ethnic Albanian minority and the nation’s Macedonian majority.
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Macedonia in mourning after gun battle leaves 22 dead
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-macedonia-gun-battle-20150510-story.html
“The fighting has raised fears that the Balkans — still recovering from the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia and simmering ethnic tensions — is entering another phase of bitter ethnic violence. Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia were all once part of Yugoslavia, which dissolved in 1992.”
EU, NATO, U.N.Call for Calm in Macedonia
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-nato-u-n-call-for-calm-in-macedonia-1431365446
“Ethnic Albanians constitute the largest minority population in Macedonia, a country of just over two million people. According to the country’s last census in 2002, slightly more than 25% of the population was ethnic Albanian.”
Macedonia protests 'to continue' against PM Gruevski
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32776204
“In 2001, Macedonia was on the brink of civil war when armed rebels demanded greater rights for the Albanian minority, which makes up about a quarter of Macedonia's 2.1 million population.”
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Legalising Roma Homes in Macedonia (Prilep) with Micro-Loans

Legalising Roma Homes in Macedonia (Prilep) with Micro-Loans

Legalising Roma Homes in Macedonia (Prilep) with Micro-Loans

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Thousands of Roma living on the outskirts of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, are using Habitat for Humanity loans and help from a local partnership NGO to become legal residents and gain access to needed services and home improvements.
On the edges of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, there's a large Roma community housing over 5,000 people. Every one of these dwellings when they were built was done so illegally. They are not in danger of being knocked down or evicted, but their unofficial status creates problems for the Roma.
The cost of legalizing their homes is way beyond what many Roma can afford and the legal process far too daunting. It's a problem faced by around 300,000 people in this country, almost 15 percent of the population. So Habitat helps by providing non-profit interest microloans with Roma SOS on hand to guide residents through the legal process.
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FYROM: Human Rights Abuses in the so-called Republic of Macedonia

The song is ΜΕ ΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΣΤΑΥΡΩΜΕΝΑ - me ta heria stavromena (with hands crossed) from Macedonian singer Vasilis Karras (ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΚΑΡΡΑΣ).
AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIANS:
"Although human rights principles are encoded in Macedonian law, their application remains selective and incomplete. This is partially a result of political and economic pressures in the southern Balkans, as well as of the countrys communist traditions. But at times, the current Macedonian government has been directly responsible for violating the rights of its citizens."
(Fred Williams, HelsinkiHuman Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 1)
"Albanian nationalists, led by the PDP, sponsored a referendum in January 1992 in support of cantonization. The result showed that 74 percent of those voting (put at 92 percent of those eligible to vote) supported territorial autonomy for Albanians in Macedonia. The state, however, refused to recognize the vote and declared it illegal."
(Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott, POLITICS, POWER, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, p 253)
"A major complaint of the ethnic Albanians concerns higher education in the Albanian language. An attempt in early 1995 to open a private Albanian-language university was deemed illegal by the state and ordered shut down. The initiative continued nonetheless, and an Albanian man was killed when police clashed with Albanians on the first day of classes. The organizers of the university were imprisoned for a brief period after a trial that failed to meet international standards the second such trial against a group of prominent ethnic Albanians in the past two years."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
AGAINST ORDINARY CITIZENS:
"But minority groups are not the only victims. All citizens of Macedonia suffer from the countrys weak democratic institutions, immature political parties and economic hardships. Despite the adoption of democratic legal standards, for example, there are still many violations of due process in Macedonian courts against all citizens regardless of their ethnicity. Defendants are sometimes held in detention for longer than the twenty-four hours allowed by Macedonian law, submitted to physical abuse, denied access to a lawyer or the right to a fair trial."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
Archbishop Jovan, citizen of Skopje, Serbian Orthodox clergyman put in Jail for denying a 'Macedonian' Church:
http://www.southeasteurope.org/subpage.php?sub_site=2&id=14827&head=hl&site=5
http://www.oca.org/News.asp?ID=1118&SID=19
"The political opposition has also complained about mistreatment by the state, including phone-tapping and police harassment."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
http://www.ex-yupress.com/mkdnevnik/mkdnevnik14.html
"Another problem in Macedonia involves freedom of the press. The state-run company Nova Makadonja still has a virtual monopoly on printing and distribution, which severely limits the possibilities for an independent press. In May 1995, the government closed eighty-eight private radio and television stations, especially some of the more influential minority stations, allegedly for technical reasons."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
VITAL INTERESTS OF THE NATION:
"Both the United States and Europe fear a spread of war to Macedonia since the conflict could draw in Greece and possibly Turkey, both members of NATO, as well as Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria. In the name of stability, however, both the U.N. and the OSCE tend to defend the status quo in Macedonia and downplay human rights violations within the country."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 3)

2:01

Macedonia PM lays flowers at crash site

Macedonia PM lays flowers at crash site

Macedonia PM lays flowers at crash site

1. Convoy approach crash site
2. Various of Macedonia's Prime MinisterBranco Crvenkovski (with the beard and dark coat) and Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, at the crash site
3. Various of debris at the site
4. Crvenkovski lays flowers
5. Cutaway flags at the morgue
6. Various men at the site
7. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) Macedonia's Prime Minister Branco Crvenkovski:
"We don't know the results of the investigation. I understand the investigation is led by the Bosnian authorities. We have experts from Macedonia working on it. The investigation will be conducted in accordance with strict international rules. We need to determine what happened. We need to find what or who is responsible for what happened. Believe me, there is no way someone can escape responsibility for this. That's all I can say (in reference to a question about allegations that a FrenchNATO soldier in charge of air traffic control was responsible for misguiding the presidential plane)."
8. Wide shot reporters
9. Exterior morgue
STORYLINE:
Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski laid flowers on Sunday at the site where Macedonia's president and his entourage died when their plane crashed in the mountains of southern Bosnia.
Crvenkovski arrived in Bosnia on Saturday night to find out first hand how fast the identification process can be concluded and perhaps speed up the investigation into the cause of the crash.
PresidentBoris Trajkovski was en route to an international conference in Bosnia on Thursday when his twin-engine turboprop plane crashed in heavy fog, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Sarajevo.
Search teams struggled to locate the wreck and recover the bodies in the mountainous area amid bad weather and land mines left over from the Bosnian war.
Crvenkovski, accompanied by Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, defied heavy rain and wind to get to the site, where only a few metal parts laying around in the rocky terrain indicated the place of the accident.
In complete silence both laid flowers on the rocks near a piece of broken windshield.
The wreckage of the plane was taken on Saturday to the nearby Mostar airport for further investigation.
Forensic experts began carrying out a DNA analysis on the remains to positively identify the bodies, six of which were burned beyond recognition.
The identification process may take several days.
Bosnian and Macedonian experts were listening to a recording of the last conversation between the pilot and the French air traffic controllers working at the time at the Mostar airport.
More clues about the cause of the crash will come from the two black boxes found at the site.
So far it was early to say what may have caused the accident but Dzelal Hasecic, director of the Bosnian civil aviation authority, said that before the crash, the plane was "on a much lower altitude then it was supposed to be."
In the Macedonian capital, officials were awaiting the final forensic findings before officially setting a date for elections to elect a successor to Trajkovski, a 47-year-old moderate leader credited with helping defuse an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001.
Macedonia's government set up a panel of legal experts working to meet a constitutional requirement that the vote be held in 40 days.
The speaker of Macedonia's parliament, Ljupco Jordanovski, has been named interim acting president.
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34:40

The fight against corruption in Macedonia in 2017

The fight against corruption in Macedonia in 2017

The fight against corruption in Macedonia in 2017

Transparency InternationalMacedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the topic "Fight against Corruption in Macedonia in 2017". At the press conference, Slagjana Taseva PhD, President of TI-M pointed out that "The fight against corruption in the Republic of Macedonia is not at the necessary level to enable the development of democratic values and the rule of law. The escalation of this problem is best reflected in the country's tremendous decline in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, according to which it fell for 24 places - from the 66th to the lowest 90th place in the world. This result showed that corruption is a serious obstacle to the rule of law, the development of the economy, investment and democracy. "
The Republic of Macedonia is a society in which relations are based on clientelism. For a long time, a system has been built in which interests rather than law are governed, corrupts are protected and the negative effects of corruption are ignored.
In order to improve the situation, it is necessary to:
- Have well-planned, organized and efficient activity in the fight against corruption involving all stakeholders: the Government, the persecution institutions, the Parliament in its function of supervision and control, independent judiciary free from all influences, non-governmental organizations;
- Reforms in the StateCommission for Prevention of Corruption;
- Raising the collective consciousness which should be freed from the spirit of party obedience;
- The government should ensure full independence in the work of other authorities, in the Judicial and Legislative Authority. A precondition for this is to ensure the capacity, professionalism, resources and full independence of the PublicProsecution as a prosecution authority that should and must act independently of the policy;
- Reform of the administration should ensure integrity and personal responsibility with respect to the institutional setting established by the Constitution;
- To enable the smooth functioning of the Special Prosecution as a separate unit within the Public Prosecution in order to complete the already initiated pre-trial procedures;
- A court decree on cases such as “AFIS” and “Banks”, which have been in pre-trial procedure for years. A court decree is required for all cases run by the Special Public Prosecutor's Office.

Macedonia Data Protection Law Firm

0:39

INVEST IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

INVEST IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

INVEST IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Macedonia prides itself with its educated, highly-qualified, and ethical workforce that is available to foreign investors. The average gross monthly salary is €430. Educational standards at technical higher educational institutions in Macedonia resemble those of the Western countries.
Workers are welcoming of continuing education and life-long learning, successfully completing customized vocational trainings. The Government is willing to help investors in the process of labor force training by participating in such programs.
English is widely spoken among Macedonia's workforce, as well as all the languages of the region: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Albanian and Greek.
In order to support companies and increase their international competitiveness, the Government has introduced legal reforms in the functioning of the labor market that enable easier hiring and firing of the labor force.
http://www.investinmacedonia.com/

4:58

Idat denovi - My signature is law (Caravan throught Macedonia)

Idat denovi - My signature is law (Caravan throught Macedonia)

Idat denovi - My signature is law (Caravan throught Macedonia)

MY SIGNATURE IS LAW! - " 10,000 signatures to enact a Law for the Protection of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disability"
Caravan throught Macedonia for the FirstEverTakenSuccessful Civic Initiative, named "My signature is Law!" directet to collect 10 000 signatures.
In this initiative were collected 18986 signature for enacting the Law for the protection of the right and dignity of people with disability.

9:17

An Idiot's Opinion of the Macedonia Ordeal

An Idiot's Opinion of the Macedonia Ordeal

An Idiot's Opinion of the Macedonia Ordeal

I have a right to blab about a subject and express my opinion. If you don't like it, don't watch it. MaybeI am a bit of a conspiracy theory nut, but it's very logical to think that the BIG WESTERN POWERS are behind some of this mess in Kumanovo, Macedonia where 8 policemen were killed along with 30+ injured.

Understanding The Macedonia Name Dispute

Why are Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, locked in a name dispute for over two decades?
We take a look at the issue that is preventing this young nation from joining the EU and NATO.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/macedonia-name-dispute/29020750.html

published: 05 Feb 2018

MACEDONIA IS GREEK - A law professor and legal advisor of FYROM government admits

Growing Fears Of Ethnic Violence In Macedonia

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Here’s a look at the public unrest in Macedonia that could renew conflict between ethnic Albanian minority and the nation’s Macedonian majority.
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Macedonia in mourning after gun battle leaves 22 dead
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-macedonia-gun-battle-20150510-story.html
“The fighting has raised fears that the Balkans — still recovering from the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia and simmering ethnic tensions — is entering another phase of bitter ethnic violence. Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia were all once part of Yugoslavia, which dissolved in 1992.”
EU, NATO, U.N.Call for Calm in Macedonia
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-nato-u-n-call-for-calm-in-macedonia-1431365446
“Ethnic Albanians constitute the largest minority population...

published: 21 May 2015

Legalising Roma Homes in Macedonia (Prilep) with Micro-Loans

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Thousands of Roma living on the outskirts of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, are using Habitat for Humanity loans and help from a local partnership NGO to become legal residents and gain access to needed services and home improvements.
On the edges of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, there's a large Roma community housing over 5,000 people. Every one of these dwellings when they were built was done so illegally. They are not in danger of being knocked down or evicted, but their unofficial status creates problems for the Roma.
The cost of legalizing their homes is way beyond what many Roma can afford and the legal process far too daunting. It's a problem faced b...

FYROM: Human Rights Abuses in the so-called Republic of Macedonia

The song is ΜΕ ΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΣΤΑΥΡΩΜΕΝΑ - me ta heria stavromena (with hands crossed) from Macedonian singer Vasilis Karras (ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΚΑΡΡΑΣ).
AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIANS:
"Although human rights principles are encoded in Macedonian law, their application remains selective and incomplete. This is partially a result of political and economic pressures in the southern Balkans, as well as of the countrys communist traditions. But at times, the current Macedonian government has been directly responsible for violating the rights of its citizens."
(Fred Williams, HelsinkiHuman Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 1)
"Albanian nationalists, led by the PDP, sponsored a referendum in January 1992 in support of cantonization. The result showed that 74 percent of those voting (put at 92 percen...

published: 09 Aug 2009

Macedonia PM lays flowers at crash site

1. Convoy approach crash site
2. Various of Macedonia's Prime MinisterBranco Crvenkovski (with the beard and dark coat) and Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, at the crash site
3. Various of debris at the site
4. Crvenkovski lays flowers
5. Cutaway flags at the morgue
6. Various men at the site
7. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) Macedonia's Prime Minister Branco Crvenkovski:
"We don't know the results of the investigation. I understand the investigation is led by the Bosnian authorities. We have experts from Macedonia working on it. The investigation will be conducted in accordance with strict international rules. We need to determine what happened. We need to find what or who is responsible for what happened. Believe me, there is no way someone can escape responsibility for this. Th...

Macedonia Data Protection Law Firm

published: 25 Feb 2015

INVEST IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Macedonia prides itself with its educated, highly-qualified, and ethical workforce that is available to foreign investors. The average gross monthly salary is €430. Educational standards at technical higher educational institutions in Macedonia resemble those of the Western countries.
Workers are welcoming of continuing education and life-long learning, successfully completing customized vocational trainings. The Government is willing to help investors in the process of labor force training by participating in such programs.
English is widely spoken among Macedonia's workforce, as well as all the languages of the region: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Albanian and Greek.
In order to support companies and increase their international competitiveness, the Government has ...

published: 08 Apr 2009

Idat denovi - My signature is law (Caravan throught Macedonia)

MY SIGNATURE IS LAW! - " 10,000 signatures to enact a Law for the Protection of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disability"
Caravan throught Macedonia for the FirstEverTakenSuccessful Civic Initiative, named "My signature is Law!" directet to collect 10 000 signatures.
In this initiative were collected 18986 signature for enacting the Law for the protection of the right and dignity of people with disability.

published: 04 Apr 2009

An Idiot's Opinion of the Macedonia Ordeal

I have a right to blab about a subject and express my opinion. If you don't like it, don't watch it. MaybeI am a bit of a conspiracy theory nut, but it's very logical to think that the BIG WESTERN POWERS are behind some of this mess in Kumanovo, Macedonia where 8 policemen were killed along with 30+ injured.

(5 Dec 2011)
AP TELEVISION
The Hague, Netherlands16:9
1. Wide shot on the International Court of Justice
2. Mid of UN flag
3. Various of Greece legal team
4. Various of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
5. Judges entering court room
6. Close of JudgeHisashi Owada, president of the court, telling court to sit
7. Wide of court sitting down
ICJ POOL
The Hague, Netherlands
4:3
8. Wide of court room
9. Mid of judges
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Hisashi Owada, President of the court:
"Two, by 15 votes to 1, finds that the Hellenic Republic by objecting the admission of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to NATO has breached its obligation under article 11, paragraph 1 of the internal accord on the 13th November1995."
11. Mid of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
AP TELEVISION
The Hague, Netherlands
16:9
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ioannis Economides, GreekAmbassador in the Netherlands:
"The court in its decision of today calls on the two parties to engage in meaningful negotiations under the UN auspices. Greece is ready to pursue this course of action and invites the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to do the same and to desist from using today's decision to subvert these negotiations as foreseen in the Security Council resolution."
13. Ambassador of Greece leaving the court
AP TELEVISION
Skopje, Macedonia
16:9
14. Wide of Macedonia President Geroge Ivanov with Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski (left) and Speaker of Parliament, Trajko Veljanoski
15. Close of Gruevski
16 . Close of Ivanov
17. Mid of Gruevski and Ivanov
18. Sign reading Republic of Macedonia and Macedonian flag
19. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) George Ivanov, President of Macedonia:
"Instead of blocking, the Republic of Greece should support our integration into international organisations as required by our agreement."
AP TELEVISION
Athens, Greece
16:9
20. Various of changing of the guards outside Parliament
21. Mid of Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and tourists
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Tzogopoulos, political analyst from the HellenicFoundation for European and Foreign Policy:
"This decision is not a straightforward one and it will not solve the whole discussion which is mainly based on the name issue and a mutually accepted solution which has to be found under the UN umbrella."
23. Wide of people in square
STORYLINE:
The world court ruled on Monday that Greece was wrong to block Macedonia's bid to join NATO in 2008 because of a long-running dispute over the fledgling country's use of the name Macedonia.
In a 15-1 ruling in The Hague, the court found that Greece's veto breached a 1995 deal under which Greece had agreed not to block Macedonia's membership in international organisations if it used the name "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia," or FYROM, while the matter was submitted to further negotiations.
More than 15 years later, mediation over the name is still unresolved.
The ruling was read out at the UN Court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, by Presiding Judge Hisashi Owada.
Although the question of Macedonia's name is sometimes seen as superficial by outsiders, it is a matter of deep concern for both sides.
The young country has used the name in one form or another since shortly after World War II, when it was a province of Yugoslavia, but Greece sees the use of the name as historically inaccurate at best and a potential threat to its territorial integrity at worst.
The victory is mostly symbolic but it may make it politically difficult for Greece to block Macedonia's entry into NATO if it reapplies.
It also lends moral weight to Macedonian protests that Greece's moves to block it from joining the European Union are unfair.
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(5 Dec 2011)
AP TELEVISION
The Hague, Netherlands16:9
1. Wide shot on the International Court of Justice
2. Mid of UN flag
3. Various of Greece legal team
4. Various of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
5. Judges entering court room
6. Close of JudgeHisashi Owada, president of the court, telling court to sit
7. Wide of court sitting down
ICJ POOL
The Hague, Netherlands
4:3
8. Wide of court room
9. Mid of judges
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Hisashi Owada, President of the court:
"Two, by 15 votes to 1, finds that the Hellenic Republic by objecting the admission of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to NATO has breached its obligation under article 11, paragraph 1 of the internal accord on the 13th November1995."
11. Mid of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
AP TELEVISION
The Hague, Netherlands
16:9
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ioannis Economides, GreekAmbassador in the Netherlands:
"The court in its decision of today calls on the two parties to engage in meaningful negotiations under the UN auspices. Greece is ready to pursue this course of action and invites the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to do the same and to desist from using today's decision to subvert these negotiations as foreseen in the Security Council resolution."
13. Ambassador of Greece leaving the court
AP TELEVISION
Skopje, Macedonia
16:9
14. Wide of Macedonia President Geroge Ivanov with Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski (left) and Speaker of Parliament, Trajko Veljanoski
15. Close of Gruevski
16 . Close of Ivanov
17. Mid of Gruevski and Ivanov
18. Sign reading Republic of Macedonia and Macedonian flag
19. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) George Ivanov, President of Macedonia:
"Instead of blocking, the Republic of Greece should support our integration into international organisations as required by our agreement."
AP TELEVISION
Athens, Greece
16:9
20. Various of changing of the guards outside Parliament
21. Mid of Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and tourists
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Tzogopoulos, political analyst from the HellenicFoundation for European and Foreign Policy:
"This decision is not a straightforward one and it will not solve the whole discussion which is mainly based on the name issue and a mutually accepted solution which has to be found under the UN umbrella."
23. Wide of people in square
STORYLINE:
The world court ruled on Monday that Greece was wrong to block Macedonia's bid to join NATO in 2008 because of a long-running dispute over the fledgling country's use of the name Macedonia.
In a 15-1 ruling in The Hague, the court found that Greece's veto breached a 1995 deal under which Greece had agreed not to block Macedonia's membership in international organisations if it used the name "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia," or FYROM, while the matter was submitted to further negotiations.
More than 15 years later, mediation over the name is still unresolved.
The ruling was read out at the UN Court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, by Presiding Judge Hisashi Owada.
Although the question of Macedonia's name is sometimes seen as superficial by outsiders, it is a matter of deep concern for both sides.
The young country has used the name in one form or another since shortly after World War II, when it was a province of Yugoslavia, but Greece sees the use of the name as historically inaccurate at best and a potential threat to its territorial integrity at worst.
The victory is mostly symbolic but it may make it politically difficult for Greece to block Macedonia's entry into NATO if it reapplies.
It also lends moral weight to Macedonian protests that Greece's moves to block it from joining the European Union are unfair.
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Understanding The Macedonia Name Dispute

Why are Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, locked in a name dispute for over two decades?
We take a look at the issue that is preventing this young nation f...

Why are Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, locked in a name dispute for over two decades?
We take a look at the issue that is preventing this young nation from joining the EU and NATO.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/macedonia-name-dispute/29020750.html

Why are Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, locked in a name dispute for over two decades?
We take a look at the issue that is preventing this young nation from joining the EU and NATO.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/macedonia-name-dispute/29020750.html

published:05 Feb 2018

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MACEDONIA IS GREEK - A law professor and legal advisor of FYROM government admits

Growing Fears Of Ethnic Violence In Macedonia

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Here’s a look at the public unrest in Macedonia that could renew conflict between ethnic Albanian minority and the nation’s...

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Here’s a look at the public unrest in Macedonia that could renew conflict between ethnic Albanian minority and the nation’s Macedonian majority.
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Macedonia in mourning after gun battle leaves 22 dead
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-macedonia-gun-battle-20150510-story.html
“The fighting has raised fears that the Balkans — still recovering from the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia and simmering ethnic tensions — is entering another phase of bitter ethnic violence. Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia were all once part of Yugoslavia, which dissolved in 1992.”
EU, NATO, U.N.Call for Calm in Macedonia
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-nato-u-n-call-for-calm-in-macedonia-1431365446
“Ethnic Albanians constitute the largest minority population in Macedonia, a country of just over two million people. According to the country’s last census in 2002, slightly more than 25% of the population was ethnic Albanian.”
Macedonia protests 'to continue' against PM Gruevski
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32776204
“In 2001, Macedonia was on the brink of civil war when armed rebels demanded greater rights for the Albanian minority, which makes up about a quarter of Macedonia's 2.1 million population.”
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Here’s a look at the public unrest in Macedonia that could renew conflict between ethnic Albanian minority and the nation’s Macedonian majority.
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Macedonia in mourning after gun battle leaves 22 dead
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-macedonia-gun-battle-20150510-story.html
“The fighting has raised fears that the Balkans — still recovering from the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia and simmering ethnic tensions — is entering another phase of bitter ethnic violence. Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia were all once part of Yugoslavia, which dissolved in 1992.”
EU, NATO, U.N.Call for Calm in Macedonia
http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-nato-u-n-call-for-calm-in-macedonia-1431365446
“Ethnic Albanians constitute the largest minority population in Macedonia, a country of just over two million people. According to the country’s last census in 2002, slightly more than 25% of the population was ethnic Albanian.”
Macedonia protests 'to continue' against PM Gruevski
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32776204
“In 2001, Macedonia was on the brink of civil war when armed rebels demanded greater rights for the Albanian minority, which makes up about a quarter of Macedonia's 2.1 million population.”
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Legalising Roma Homes in Macedonia (Prilep) with Micro-Loans

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Thousands of Roma living on the outskirts of Pril...

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Thousands of Roma living on the outskirts of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, are using Habitat for Humanity loans and help from a local partnership NGO to become legal residents and gain access to needed services and home improvements.
On the edges of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, there's a large Roma community housing over 5,000 people. Every one of these dwellings when they were built was done so illegally. They are not in danger of being knocked down or evicted, but their unofficial status creates problems for the Roma.
The cost of legalizing their homes is way beyond what many Roma can afford and the legal process far too daunting. It's a problem faced by around 300,000 people in this country, almost 15 percent of the population. So Habitat helps by providing non-profit interest microloans with Roma SOS on hand to guide residents through the legal process.
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Thousands of Roma living on the outskirts of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, are using Habitat for Humanity loans and help from a local partnership NGO to become legal residents and gain access to needed services and home improvements.
On the edges of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, there's a large Roma community housing over 5,000 people. Every one of these dwellings when they were built was done so illegally. They are not in danger of being knocked down or evicted, but their unofficial status creates problems for the Roma.
The cost of legalizing their homes is way beyond what many Roma can afford and the legal process far too daunting. It's a problem faced by around 300,000 people in this country, almost 15 percent of the population. So Habitat helps by providing non-profit interest microloans with Roma SOS on hand to guide residents through the legal process.
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The song is ΜΕ ΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΣΤΑΥΡΩΜΕΝΑ - me ta heria stavromena (with hands crossed) from Macedonian singer Vasilis Karras (ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΚΑΡΡΑΣ).
AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIANS:
"Although human rights principles are encoded in Macedonian law, their application remains selective and incomplete. This is partially a result of political and economic pressures in the southern Balkans, as well as of the countrys communist traditions. But at times, the current Macedonian government has been directly responsible for violating the rights of its citizens."
(Fred Williams, HelsinkiHuman Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 1)
"Albanian nationalists, led by the PDP, sponsored a referendum in January 1992 in support of cantonization. The result showed that 74 percent of those voting (put at 92 percent of those eligible to vote) supported territorial autonomy for Albanians in Macedonia. The state, however, refused to recognize the vote and declared it illegal."
(Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott, POLITICS, POWER, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, p 253)
"A major complaint of the ethnic Albanians concerns higher education in the Albanian language. An attempt in early 1995 to open a private Albanian-language university was deemed illegal by the state and ordered shut down. The initiative continued nonetheless, and an Albanian man was killed when police clashed with Albanians on the first day of classes. The organizers of the university were imprisoned for a brief period after a trial that failed to meet international standards the second such trial against a group of prominent ethnic Albanians in the past two years."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
AGAINST ORDINARY CITIZENS:
"But minority groups are not the only victims. All citizens of Macedonia suffer from the countrys weak democratic institutions, immature political parties and economic hardships. Despite the adoption of democratic legal standards, for example, there are still many violations of due process in Macedonian courts against all citizens regardless of their ethnicity. Defendants are sometimes held in detention for longer than the twenty-four hours allowed by Macedonian law, submitted to physical abuse, denied access to a lawyer or the right to a fair trial."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
Archbishop Jovan, citizen of Skopje, Serbian Orthodox clergyman put in Jail for denying a 'Macedonian' Church:
http://www.southeasteurope.org/subpage.php?sub_site=2&id=14827&head=hl&site=5
http://www.oca.org/News.asp?ID=1118&SID=19
"The political opposition has also complained about mistreatment by the state, including phone-tapping and police harassment."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
http://www.ex-yupress.com/mkdnevnik/mkdnevnik14.html
"Another problem in Macedonia involves freedom of the press. The state-run company Nova Makadonja still has a virtual monopoly on printing and distribution, which severely limits the possibilities for an independent press. In May 1995, the government closed eighty-eight private radio and television stations, especially some of the more influential minority stations, allegedly for technical reasons."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
VITAL INTERESTS OF THE NATION:
"Both the United States and Europe fear a spread of war to Macedonia since the conflict could draw in Greece and possibly Turkey, both members of NATO, as well as Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria. In the name of stability, however, both the U.N. and the OSCE tend to defend the status quo in Macedonia and downplay human rights violations within the country."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 3)

The song is ΜΕ ΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΣΤΑΥΡΩΜΕΝΑ - me ta heria stavromena (with hands crossed) from Macedonian singer Vasilis Karras (ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΚΑΡΡΑΣ).
AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIANS:
"Although human rights principles are encoded in Macedonian law, their application remains selective and incomplete. This is partially a result of political and economic pressures in the southern Balkans, as well as of the countrys communist traditions. But at times, the current Macedonian government has been directly responsible for violating the rights of its citizens."
(Fred Williams, HelsinkiHuman Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 1)
"Albanian nationalists, led by the PDP, sponsored a referendum in January 1992 in support of cantonization. The result showed that 74 percent of those voting (put at 92 percent of those eligible to vote) supported territorial autonomy for Albanians in Macedonia. The state, however, refused to recognize the vote and declared it illegal."
(Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott, POLITICS, POWER, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, p 253)
"A major complaint of the ethnic Albanians concerns higher education in the Albanian language. An attempt in early 1995 to open a private Albanian-language university was deemed illegal by the state and ordered shut down. The initiative continued nonetheless, and an Albanian man was killed when police clashed with Albanians on the first day of classes. The organizers of the university were imprisoned for a brief period after a trial that failed to meet international standards the second such trial against a group of prominent ethnic Albanians in the past two years."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
AGAINST ORDINARY CITIZENS:
"But minority groups are not the only victims. All citizens of Macedonia suffer from the countrys weak democratic institutions, immature political parties and economic hardships. Despite the adoption of democratic legal standards, for example, there are still many violations of due process in Macedonian courts against all citizens regardless of their ethnicity. Defendants are sometimes held in detention for longer than the twenty-four hours allowed by Macedonian law, submitted to physical abuse, denied access to a lawyer or the right to a fair trial."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
Archbishop Jovan, citizen of Skopje, Serbian Orthodox clergyman put in Jail for denying a 'Macedonian' Church:
http://www.southeasteurope.org/subpage.php?sub_site=2&id=14827&head=hl&site=5
http://www.oca.org/News.asp?ID=1118&SID=19
"The political opposition has also complained about mistreatment by the state, including phone-tapping and police harassment."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
http://www.ex-yupress.com/mkdnevnik/mkdnevnik14.html
"Another problem in Macedonia involves freedom of the press. The state-run company Nova Makadonja still has a virtual monopoly on printing and distribution, which severely limits the possibilities for an independent press. In May 1995, the government closed eighty-eight private radio and television stations, especially some of the more influential minority stations, allegedly for technical reasons."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
VITAL INTERESTS OF THE NATION:
"Both the United States and Europe fear a spread of war to Macedonia since the conflict could draw in Greece and possibly Turkey, both members of NATO, as well as Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria. In the name of stability, however, both the U.N. and the OSCE tend to defend the status quo in Macedonia and downplay human rights violations within the country."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 3)

1. Convoy approach crash site
2. Various of Macedonia's Prime MinisterBranco Crvenkovski (with the beard and dark coat) and Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, at the crash site
3. Various of debris at the site
4. Crvenkovski lays flowers
5. Cutaway flags at the morgue
6. Various men at the site
7. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) Macedonia's Prime Minister Branco Crvenkovski:
"We don't know the results of the investigation. I understand the investigation is led by the Bosnian authorities. We have experts from Macedonia working on it. The investigation will be conducted in accordance with strict international rules. We need to determine what happened. We need to find what or who is responsible for what happened. Believe me, there is no way someone can escape responsibility for this. That's all I can say (in reference to a question about allegations that a FrenchNATO soldier in charge of air traffic control was responsible for misguiding the presidential plane)."
8. Wide shot reporters
9. Exterior morgue
STORYLINE:
Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski laid flowers on Sunday at the site where Macedonia's president and his entourage died when their plane crashed in the mountains of southern Bosnia.
Crvenkovski arrived in Bosnia on Saturday night to find out first hand how fast the identification process can be concluded and perhaps speed up the investigation into the cause of the crash.
PresidentBoris Trajkovski was en route to an international conference in Bosnia on Thursday when his twin-engine turboprop plane crashed in heavy fog, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Sarajevo.
Search teams struggled to locate the wreck and recover the bodies in the mountainous area amid bad weather and land mines left over from the Bosnian war.
Crvenkovski, accompanied by Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, defied heavy rain and wind to get to the site, where only a few metal parts laying around in the rocky terrain indicated the place of the accident.
In complete silence both laid flowers on the rocks near a piece of broken windshield.
The wreckage of the plane was taken on Saturday to the nearby Mostar airport for further investigation.
Forensic experts began carrying out a DNA analysis on the remains to positively identify the bodies, six of which were burned beyond recognition.
The identification process may take several days.
Bosnian and Macedonian experts were listening to a recording of the last conversation between the pilot and the French air traffic controllers working at the time at the Mostar airport.
More clues about the cause of the crash will come from the two black boxes found at the site.
So far it was early to say what may have caused the accident but Dzelal Hasecic, director of the Bosnian civil aviation authority, said that before the crash, the plane was "on a much lower altitude then it was supposed to be."
In the Macedonian capital, officials were awaiting the final forensic findings before officially setting a date for elections to elect a successor to Trajkovski, a 47-year-old moderate leader credited with helping defuse an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001.
Macedonia's government set up a panel of legal experts working to meet a constitutional requirement that the vote be held in 40 days.
The speaker of Macedonia's parliament, Ljupco Jordanovski, has been named interim acting president.
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c2bba4e06d1550c844b7231529cf3fde
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1. Convoy approach crash site
2. Various of Macedonia's Prime MinisterBranco Crvenkovski (with the beard and dark coat) and Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, at the crash site
3. Various of debris at the site
4. Crvenkovski lays flowers
5. Cutaway flags at the morgue
6. Various men at the site
7. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) Macedonia's Prime Minister Branco Crvenkovski:
"We don't know the results of the investigation. I understand the investigation is led by the Bosnian authorities. We have experts from Macedonia working on it. The investigation will be conducted in accordance with strict international rules. We need to determine what happened. We need to find what or who is responsible for what happened. Believe me, there is no way someone can escape responsibility for this. That's all I can say (in reference to a question about allegations that a FrenchNATO soldier in charge of air traffic control was responsible for misguiding the presidential plane)."
8. Wide shot reporters
9. Exterior morgue
STORYLINE:
Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski laid flowers on Sunday at the site where Macedonia's president and his entourage died when their plane crashed in the mountains of southern Bosnia.
Crvenkovski arrived in Bosnia on Saturday night to find out first hand how fast the identification process can be concluded and perhaps speed up the investigation into the cause of the crash.
PresidentBoris Trajkovski was en route to an international conference in Bosnia on Thursday when his twin-engine turboprop plane crashed in heavy fog, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Sarajevo.
Search teams struggled to locate the wreck and recover the bodies in the mountainous area amid bad weather and land mines left over from the Bosnian war.
Crvenkovski, accompanied by Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, defied heavy rain and wind to get to the site, where only a few metal parts laying around in the rocky terrain indicated the place of the accident.
In complete silence both laid flowers on the rocks near a piece of broken windshield.
The wreckage of the plane was taken on Saturday to the nearby Mostar airport for further investigation.
Forensic experts began carrying out a DNA analysis on the remains to positively identify the bodies, six of which were burned beyond recognition.
The identification process may take several days.
Bosnian and Macedonian experts were listening to a recording of the last conversation between the pilot and the French air traffic controllers working at the time at the Mostar airport.
More clues about the cause of the crash will come from the two black boxes found at the site.
So far it was early to say what may have caused the accident but Dzelal Hasecic, director of the Bosnian civil aviation authority, said that before the crash, the plane was "on a much lower altitude then it was supposed to be."
In the Macedonian capital, officials were awaiting the final forensic findings before officially setting a date for elections to elect a successor to Trajkovski, a 47-year-old moderate leader credited with helping defuse an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001.
Macedonia's government set up a panel of legal experts working to meet a constitutional requirement that the vote be held in 40 days.
The speaker of Macedonia's parliament, Ljupco Jordanovski, has been named interim acting president.
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c2bba4e06d1550c844b7231529cf3fde
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

Transparency InternationalMacedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the topic "Fight against Corruption in Macedonia in 2017". At the press conference, Slagjana Taseva PhD, President of TI-M pointed out that "The fight against corruption in the Republic of Macedonia is not at the necessary level to enable the development of democratic values and the rule of law. The escalation of this problem is best reflected in the country's tremendous decline in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, according to which it fell for 24 places - from the 66th to the lowest 90th place in the world. This result showed that corruption is a serious obstacle to the rule of law, the development of the economy, investment and democracy. "
The Republic of Macedonia is a society in which relations are based on clientelism. For a long time, a system has been built in which interests rather than law are governed, corrupts are protected and the negative effects of corruption are ignored.
In order to improve the situation, it is necessary to:
- Have well-planned, organized and efficient activity in the fight against corruption involving all stakeholders: the Government, the persecution institutions, the Parliament in its function of supervision and control, independent judiciary free from all influences, non-governmental organizations;
- Reforms in the StateCommission for Prevention of Corruption;
- Raising the collective consciousness which should be freed from the spirit of party obedience;
- The government should ensure full independence in the work of other authorities, in the Judicial and Legislative Authority. A precondition for this is to ensure the capacity, professionalism, resources and full independence of the PublicProsecution as a prosecution authority that should and must act independently of the policy;
- Reform of the administration should ensure integrity and personal responsibility with respect to the institutional setting established by the Constitution;
- To enable the smooth functioning of the Special Prosecution as a separate unit within the Public Prosecution in order to complete the already initiated pre-trial procedures;
- A court decree on cases such as “AFIS” and “Banks”, which have been in pre-trial procedure for years. A court decree is required for all cases run by the Special Public Prosecutor's Office.

Transparency InternationalMacedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the topic "Fight against Corruption in Macedonia in 2017". At the press conference, Slagjana Taseva PhD, President of TI-M pointed out that "The fight against corruption in the Republic of Macedonia is not at the necessary level to enable the development of democratic values and the rule of law. The escalation of this problem is best reflected in the country's tremendous decline in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, according to which it fell for 24 places - from the 66th to the lowest 90th place in the world. This result showed that corruption is a serious obstacle to the rule of law, the development of the economy, investment and democracy. "
The Republic of Macedonia is a society in which relations are based on clientelism. For a long time, a system has been built in which interests rather than law are governed, corrupts are protected and the negative effects of corruption are ignored.
In order to improve the situation, it is necessary to:
- Have well-planned, organized and efficient activity in the fight against corruption involving all stakeholders: the Government, the persecution institutions, the Parliament in its function of supervision and control, independent judiciary free from all influences, non-governmental organizations;
- Reforms in the StateCommission for Prevention of Corruption;
- Raising the collective consciousness which should be freed from the spirit of party obedience;
- The government should ensure full independence in the work of other authorities, in the Judicial and Legislative Authority. A precondition for this is to ensure the capacity, professionalism, resources and full independence of the PublicProsecution as a prosecution authority that should and must act independently of the policy;
- Reform of the administration should ensure integrity and personal responsibility with respect to the institutional setting established by the Constitution;
- To enable the smooth functioning of the Special Prosecution as a separate unit within the Public Prosecution in order to complete the already initiated pre-trial procedures;
- A court decree on cases such as “AFIS” and “Banks”, which have been in pre-trial procedure for years. A court decree is required for all cases run by the Special Public Prosecutor's Office.

INVEST IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Macedonia prides itself with its educated, highly-qualified, and ethical workforce that is available to foreign investors. The average gross monthly salary is €...

Macedonia prides itself with its educated, highly-qualified, and ethical workforce that is available to foreign investors. The average gross monthly salary is €430. Educational standards at technical higher educational institutions in Macedonia resemble those of the Western countries.
Workers are welcoming of continuing education and life-long learning, successfully completing customized vocational trainings. The Government is willing to help investors in the process of labor force training by participating in such programs.
English is widely spoken among Macedonia's workforce, as well as all the languages of the region: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Albanian and Greek.
In order to support companies and increase their international competitiveness, the Government has introduced legal reforms in the functioning of the labor market that enable easier hiring and firing of the labor force.
http://www.investinmacedonia.com/

Macedonia prides itself with its educated, highly-qualified, and ethical workforce that is available to foreign investors. The average gross monthly salary is €430. Educational standards at technical higher educational institutions in Macedonia resemble those of the Western countries.
Workers are welcoming of continuing education and life-long learning, successfully completing customized vocational trainings. The Government is willing to help investors in the process of labor force training by participating in such programs.
English is widely spoken among Macedonia's workforce, as well as all the languages of the region: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Albanian and Greek.
In order to support companies and increase their international competitiveness, the Government has introduced legal reforms in the functioning of the labor market that enable easier hiring and firing of the labor force.
http://www.investinmacedonia.com/

MY SIGNATURE IS LAW! - " 10,000 signatures to enact a Law for the Protection of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disability"
Caravan throught Macedonia for the FirstEverTakenSuccessful Civic Initiative, named "My signature is Law!" directet to collect 10 000 signatures.
In this initiative were collected 18986 signature for enacting the Law for the protection of the right and dignity of people with disability.

MY SIGNATURE IS LAW! - " 10,000 signatures to enact a Law for the Protection of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disability"
Caravan throught Macedonia for the FirstEverTakenSuccessful Civic Initiative, named "My signature is Law!" directet to collect 10 000 signatures.
In this initiative were collected 18986 signature for enacting the Law for the protection of the right and dignity of people with disability.

An Idiot's Opinion of the Macedonia Ordeal

I have a right to blab about a subject and express my opinion. If you don't like it, don't watch it. MaybeI am a bit of a conspiracy theory nut, but it's very ...

I have a right to blab about a subject and express my opinion. If you don't like it, don't watch it. MaybeI am a bit of a conspiracy theory nut, but it's very logical to think that the BIG WESTERN POWERS are behind some of this mess in Kumanovo, Macedonia where 8 policemen were killed along with 30+ injured.

I have a right to blab about a subject and express my opinion. If you don't like it, don't watch it. MaybeI am a bit of a conspiracy theory nut, but it's very logical to think that the BIG WESTERN POWERS are behind some of this mess in Kumanovo, Macedonia where 8 policemen were killed along with 30+ injured.

City of Macedonia Council Meeting 2-8-2018

Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain Skopje Macedonia - Sam Vaknin

1918 франција и македониа - 1918 france and macedonia

Macedonians belong to the "older" Mediterranean substratum...Macedonians are not related with geographically close Greeks, who do not belong to the "older" Mediterranenan substratum...
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.057002118.x

published: 17 Jul 2012

Geography Now! ISRAEL

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Experiments in Legal Pluralism: Sharia Law as Minority Right in Interwar Yugoslavia

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18.06.2013 | 18.00 h | Max-Weber-Vortragsraum des Käte Hamburger Kollegs „Recht als Kultur"
Nina Dethloff (Bonn): "Hybride Rechtsordnungen in Europa im Globalisierungsprozess"
www.law-as-culture.com - www.recht-als-kultur.de
AbstractPluralism of legal sources and norms with non-statal origins are no new phenomena. What is new, however, is their dimension. They are global and have led to a plurality of legal orders and legal sources on various levels that is nigh on impossible to survey. Nina Dethloff investigates the diverse forms of interplay between them and highlights different processes of hybridization. Uniform law is shaped by elements of different national and supranational laws and regulations, but in turn also influences legislation on various levels....

What Life Is Like For Afghans Facing The Deadliest Taliban Yet: VICE on HBO, Full Episode

After more than 16 years of war, Afghan civilians live each day under constant threat, as U.S. forces and the Afghan government struggle to secure the country.
Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the war since 2001, U.S. goals are far from within reach. Meanwhile, the Taliban has never been stronger, controlling more land than ever before and establishing footholds in nearly every province in Afghanistan.
READ: U.S. troops will face the deadliest Taliban yet
PresidentDonald Trump has vowed to undo some of the terror group’s grip on the country and force it back to the negotiating table. But his new strategy, which centers on thousands of additional U.S. troops and an intensification of airstrikes, has only just begun to produce gains.
The Taliban, facing renewed pressure,...

Transparency InternationalMacedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the topic "Fight against Corruption in Macedonia in 2017". At the press conference, Slagjana Taseva PhD, President of TI-M pointed out that "The fight against corruption in the Republic of Macedonia is not at the necessary level to enable the development of democratic values and the rule of law. The escalation of this problem is best reflected in the country's tremendous decline in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, according to which it fell for 24 places - from the 66th to the lowest 90th place in the world. This result showed that corruption is a serious obstacle to the rule of law, the development of the economy, investment and democracy. "
The Republic of Macedonia is a society in which relations are based on clientelism. For a long time, a system has been built in which interests rather than law are governed, corrupts are protected and the negative effects of corruption are ignored.
In order to improve the situation, it is necessary to:
- Have well-planned, organized and efficient activity in the fight against corruption involving all stakeholders: the Government, the persecution institutions, the Parliament in its function of supervision and control, independent judiciary free from all influences, non-governmental organizations;
- Reforms in the StateCommission for Prevention of Corruption;
- Raising the collective consciousness which should be freed from the spirit of party obedience;
- The government should ensure full independence in the work of other authorities, in the Judicial and Legislative Authority. A precondition for this is to ensure the capacity, professionalism, resources and full independence of the PublicProsecution as a prosecution authority that should and must act independently of the policy;
- Reform of the administration should ensure integrity and personal responsibility with respect to the institutional setting established by the Constitution;
- To enable the smooth functioning of the Special Prosecution as a separate unit within the Public Prosecution in order to complete the already initiated pre-trial procedures;
- A court decree on cases such as “AFIS” and “Banks”, which have been in pre-trial procedure for years. A court decree is required for all cases run by the Special Public Prosecutor's Office.

Transparency InternationalMacedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the topic "Fight against Corruption in Macedonia in 2017". At the press conference, Slagjana Taseva PhD, President of TI-M pointed out that "The fight against corruption in the Republic of Macedonia is not at the necessary level to enable the development of democratic values and the rule of law. The escalation of this problem is best reflected in the country's tremendous decline in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, according to which it fell for 24 places - from the 66th to the lowest 90th place in the world. This result showed that corruption is a serious obstacle to the rule of law, the development of the economy, investment and democracy. "
The Republic of Macedonia is a society in which relations are based on clientelism. For a long time, a system has been built in which interests rather than law are governed, corrupts are protected and the negative effects of corruption are ignored.
In order to improve the situation, it is necessary to:
- Have well-planned, organized and efficient activity in the fight against corruption involving all stakeholders: the Government, the persecution institutions, the Parliament in its function of supervision and control, independent judiciary free from all influences, non-governmental organizations;
- Reforms in the StateCommission for Prevention of Corruption;
- Raising the collective consciousness which should be freed from the spirit of party obedience;
- The government should ensure full independence in the work of other authorities, in the Judicial and Legislative Authority. A precondition for this is to ensure the capacity, professionalism, resources and full independence of the PublicProsecution as a prosecution authority that should and must act independently of the policy;
- Reform of the administration should ensure integrity and personal responsibility with respect to the institutional setting established by the Constitution;
- To enable the smooth functioning of the Special Prosecution as a separate unit within the Public Prosecution in order to complete the already initiated pre-trial procedures;
- A court decree on cases such as “AFIS” and “Banks”, which have been in pre-trial procedure for years. A court decree is required for all cases run by the Special Public Prosecutor's Office.

published:09 Jan 2018

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The dispute between Macedonia and Greece, and the future war in Europe

Macedonians belong to the "older" Mediterranean substratum...Macedonians are not related with geographically close Greeks, who do not belong to the "older" Mediterranenan substratum...
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.057002118.x

Macedonians belong to the "older" Mediterranean substratum...Macedonians are not related with geographically close Greeks, who do not belong to the "older" Mediterranenan substratum...
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.057002118.x

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Well. This is it. North Korea is going to be a breeze after this. I talked to a lot of Israeli and Palestinian Geograpeeps for help with this video and I tried my best to cover it in a well-rounded format that addresses the controversy head on from each perspective. No matter what, people will get mad, but there's no escaping or avoiding this episode. Here we go. Israel.
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Experiments in Legal Pluralism: Sharia Law as Minority Right in Interwar Yugoslavia

After more than 16 years of war, Afghan civilians live each day under constant threat, as U.S. forces and the Afghan government struggle to secure the country.
Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the war since 2001, U.S. goals are far from within reach. Meanwhile, the Taliban has never been stronger, controlling more land than ever before and establishing footholds in nearly every province in Afghanistan.
READ: U.S. troops will face the deadliest Taliban yet
PresidentDonald Trump has vowed to undo some of the terror group’s grip on the country and force it back to the negotiating table. But his new strategy, which centers on thousands of additional U.S. troops and an intensification of airstrikes, has only just begun to produce gains.
The Taliban, facing renewed pressure, have increased terror attacks on major cities, striking at the heart of Kabul recently, in a series of devastating attacks that left hundreds of civilians dead in the span of a week.
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VICE’s Ben Anderson travelled to Afghanistan in October 2016 as the Taliban were on the verge of retaking Helmand Province, once a crucial territory in the U.S. war. Reconnecting with families he’d visited years earlier, he saw just how little has been done to contain the Taliban’s influence across the country’s rural landscape, and the challenges that await Afghan and U.S. forces.
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After more than 16 years of war, Afghan civilians live each day under constant threat, as U.S. forces and the Afghan government struggle to secure the country.
Despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the war since 2001, U.S. goals are far from within reach. Meanwhile, the Taliban has never been stronger, controlling more land than ever before and establishing footholds in nearly every province in Afghanistan.
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International Court rules on Greece and Macedonia name dispute

(5 Dec 2011)
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The Hague, Netherlands16:9
1. Wide shot on the International Court of Justice
2. Mid of UN flag
3. Various of Greece legal team
4. Various of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
5. Judges entering court room
6. Close of JudgeHisashi Owada, president of the court, telling court to sit
7. Wide of court sitting down
ICJ POOL
The Hague, Netherlands
4:3
8. Wide of court room
9. Mid of judges
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Hisashi Owada, President of the court:
"Two, by 15 votes to 1, finds that the Hellenic Republic by objecting the admission of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to NATO has breached its obligation under article 11, paragraph 1 of the internal accord on the 13th November1995."
11. Mid of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) legal team
AP TELEVISION
The Hague, Netherlands
16:9
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ioannis Economides, GreekAmbassador in the Netherlands:
"The court in its decision of today calls on the two parties to engage in meaningful negotiations under the UN auspices. Greece is ready to pursue this course of action and invites the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to do the same and to desist from using today's decision to subvert these negotiations as foreseen in the Security Council resolution."
13. Ambassador of Greece leaving the court
AP TELEVISION
Skopje, Macedonia
16:9
14. Wide of Macedonia President Geroge Ivanov with Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski (left) and Speaker of Parliament, Trajko Veljanoski
15. Close of Gruevski
16 . Close of Ivanov
17. Mid of Gruevski and Ivanov
18. Sign reading Republic of Macedonia and Macedonian flag
19. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) George Ivanov, President of Macedonia:
"Instead of blocking, the Republic of Greece should support our integration into international organisations as required by our agreement."
AP TELEVISION
Athens, Greece
16:9
20. Various of changing of the guards outside Parliament
21. Mid of Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and tourists
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Tzogopoulos, political analyst from the HellenicFoundation for European and Foreign Policy:
"This decision is not a straightforward one and it will not solve the whole discussion which is mainly based on the name issue and a mutually accepted solution which has to be found under the UN umbrella."
23. Wide of people in square
STORYLINE:
The world court ruled on Monday that Greece was wrong to block Macedonia's bid to join NATO in 2008 because of a long-running dispute over the fledgling country's use of the name Macedonia.
In a 15-1 ruling in The Hague, the court found that Greece's veto breached a 1995 deal under which Greece had agreed not to block Macedonia's membership in international organisations if it used the name "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia," or FYROM, while the matter was submitted to further negotiations.
More than 15 years later, mediation over the name is still unresolved.
The ruling was read out at the UN Court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, by Presiding Judge Hisashi Owada.
Although the question of Macedonia's name is sometimes seen as superficial by outsiders, it is a matter of deep concern for both sides.
The young country has used the name in one form or another since shortly after World War II, when it was a province of Yugoslavia, but Greece sees the use of the name as historically inaccurate at best and a potential threat to its territorial integrity at worst.
The victory is mostly symbolic but it may make it politically difficult for Greece to block Macedonia's entry into NATO if it reapplies.
It also lends moral weight to Macedonian protests that Greece's moves to block it from joining the European Union are unfair.
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2:18

Understanding The Macedonia Name Dispute

Why are Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, locked in a name dispute for over two decade...

Understanding The Macedonia Name Dispute

Why are Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, locked in a name dispute for over two decades?
We take a look at the issue that is preventing this young nation from joining the EU and NATO.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/macedonia-name-dispute/29020750.html

2:14

MACEDONIA IS GREEK - A law professor and legal advisor of FYROM government admits

A law professor and legal advisor of FYROM government admits that FYROM is not related to ...

Growing Fears Of Ethnic Violence In Macedonia

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Here’s a look at the public unrest in Macedonia that could renew conflict between ethnic Albanian minority and the nation’s Macedonian majority.
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EU, NATO, U.N.Call for Calm in Macedonia
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“Ethnic Albanians constitute the largest minority population in Macedonia, a country of just over two million people. According to the country’s last census in 2002, slightly more than 25% of the population was ethnic Albanian.”
Macedonia protests 'to continue' against PM Gruevski
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“In 2001, Macedonia was on the brink of civil war when armed rebels demanded greater rights for the Albanian minority, which makes up about a quarter of Macedonia's 2.1 million population.”
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Legalising Roma Homes in Macedonia (Prilep) with Micro-Loans

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Legalising Roma Homes in Macedonia (Prilep) with Micro-Loans

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Thousands of Roma living on the outskirts of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, are using Habitat for Humanity loans and help from a local partnership NGO to become legal residents and gain access to needed services and home improvements.
On the edges of Prilep, Macedonia's fourth largest city, there's a large Roma community housing over 5,000 people. Every one of these dwellings when they were built was done so illegally. They are not in danger of being knocked down or evicted, but their unofficial status creates problems for the Roma.
The cost of legalizing their homes is way beyond what many Roma can afford and the legal process far too daunting. It's a problem faced by around 300,000 people in this country, almost 15 percent of the population. So Habitat helps by providing non-profit interest microloans with Roma SOS on hand to guide residents through the legal process.
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2:47

(Farsi) Know you rights and services in the Republic of Macedonia

WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
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FYROM: Human Rights Abuses in the so-called Republic of Macedonia

The song is ΜΕ ΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΣΤΑΥΡΩΜΕΝΑ - me ta heria stavromena (with hands crossed) from Macedonian singer Vasilis Karras (ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΚΑΡΡΑΣ).
AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIANS:
"Although human rights principles are encoded in Macedonian law, their application remains selective and incomplete. This is partially a result of political and economic pressures in the southern Balkans, as well as of the countrys communist traditions. But at times, the current Macedonian government has been directly responsible for violating the rights of its citizens."
(Fred Williams, HelsinkiHuman Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 1)
"Albanian nationalists, led by the PDP, sponsored a referendum in January 1992 in support of cantonization. The result showed that 74 percent of those voting (put at 92 percent of those eligible to vote) supported territorial autonomy for Albanians in Macedonia. The state, however, refused to recognize the vote and declared it illegal."
(Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott, POLITICS, POWER, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, p 253)
"A major complaint of the ethnic Albanians concerns higher education in the Albanian language. An attempt in early 1995 to open a private Albanian-language university was deemed illegal by the state and ordered shut down. The initiative continued nonetheless, and an Albanian man was killed when police clashed with Albanians on the first day of classes. The organizers of the university were imprisoned for a brief period after a trial that failed to meet international standards the second such trial against a group of prominent ethnic Albanians in the past two years."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
AGAINST ORDINARY CITIZENS:
"But minority groups are not the only victims. All citizens of Macedonia suffer from the countrys weak democratic institutions, immature political parties and economic hardships. Despite the adoption of democratic legal standards, for example, there are still many violations of due process in Macedonian courts against all citizens regardless of their ethnicity. Defendants are sometimes held in detention for longer than the twenty-four hours allowed by Macedonian law, submitted to physical abuse, denied access to a lawyer or the right to a fair trial."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
Archbishop Jovan, citizen of Skopje, Serbian Orthodox clergyman put in Jail for denying a 'Macedonian' Church:
http://www.southeasteurope.org/subpage.php?sub_site=2&id=14827&head=hl&site=5
http://www.oca.org/News.asp?ID=1118&SID=19
"The political opposition has also complained about mistreatment by the state, including phone-tapping and police harassment."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
http://www.ex-yupress.com/mkdnevnik/mkdnevnik14.html
"Another problem in Macedonia involves freedom of the press. The state-run company Nova Makadonja still has a virtual monopoly on printing and distribution, which severely limits the possibilities for an independent press. In May 1995, the government closed eighty-eight private radio and television stations, especially some of the more influential minority stations, allegedly for technical reasons."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 2)
VITAL INTERESTS OF THE NATION:
"Both the United States and Europe fear a spread of war to Macedonia since the conflict could draw in Greece and possibly Turkey, both members of NATO, as well as Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria. In the name of stability, however, both the U.N. and the OSCE tend to defend the status quo in Macedonia and downplay human rights violations within the country."
(Fred Williams, Helsinki Human Rights Watch, A THREAT TO STABILITY, p 3)

Macedonia PM lays flowers at crash site

1. Convoy approach crash site
2. Various of Macedonia's Prime MinisterBranco Crvenkovski (with the beard and dark coat) and Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, at the crash site
3. Various of debris at the site
4. Crvenkovski lays flowers
5. Cutaway flags at the morgue
6. Various men at the site
7. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) Macedonia's Prime Minister Branco Crvenkovski:
"We don't know the results of the investigation. I understand the investigation is led by the Bosnian authorities. We have experts from Macedonia working on it. The investigation will be conducted in accordance with strict international rules. We need to determine what happened. We need to find what or who is responsible for what happened. Believe me, there is no way someone can escape responsibility for this. That's all I can say (in reference to a question about allegations that a FrenchNATO soldier in charge of air traffic control was responsible for misguiding the presidential plane)."
8. Wide shot reporters
9. Exterior morgue
STORYLINE:
Macedonian Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski laid flowers on Sunday at the site where Macedonia's president and his entourage died when their plane crashed in the mountains of southern Bosnia.
Crvenkovski arrived in Bosnia on Saturday night to find out first hand how fast the identification process can be concluded and perhaps speed up the investigation into the cause of the crash.
PresidentBoris Trajkovski was en route to an international conference in Bosnia on Thursday when his twin-engine turboprop plane crashed in heavy fog, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Sarajevo.
Search teams struggled to locate the wreck and recover the bodies in the mountainous area amid bad weather and land mines left over from the Bosnian war.
Crvenkovski, accompanied by Bosnia's Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, defied heavy rain and wind to get to the site, where only a few metal parts laying around in the rocky terrain indicated the place of the accident.
In complete silence both laid flowers on the rocks near a piece of broken windshield.
The wreckage of the plane was taken on Saturday to the nearby Mostar airport for further investigation.
Forensic experts began carrying out a DNA analysis on the remains to positively identify the bodies, six of which were burned beyond recognition.
The identification process may take several days.
Bosnian and Macedonian experts were listening to a recording of the last conversation between the pilot and the French air traffic controllers working at the time at the Mostar airport.
More clues about the cause of the crash will come from the two black boxes found at the site.
So far it was early to say what may have caused the accident but Dzelal Hasecic, director of the Bosnian civil aviation authority, said that before the crash, the plane was "on a much lower altitude then it was supposed to be."
In the Macedonian capital, officials were awaiting the final forensic findings before officially setting a date for elections to elect a successor to Trajkovski, a 47-year-old moderate leader credited with helping defuse an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001.
Macedonia's government set up a panel of legal experts working to meet a constitutional requirement that the vote be held in 40 days.
The speaker of Macedonia's parliament, Ljupco Jordanovski, has been named interim acting president.
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34:40

The fight against corruption in Macedonia in 2017

Transparency International Macedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the t...

The fight against corruption in Macedonia in 2017

Transparency InternationalMacedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the topic "Fight against Corruption in Macedonia in 2017". At the press conference, Slagjana Taseva PhD, President of TI-M pointed out that "The fight against corruption in the Republic of Macedonia is not at the necessary level to enable the development of democratic values and the rule of law. The escalation of this problem is best reflected in the country's tremendous decline in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, according to which it fell for 24 places - from the 66th to the lowest 90th place in the world. This result showed that corruption is a serious obstacle to the rule of law, the development of the economy, investment and democracy. "
The Republic of Macedonia is a society in which relations are based on clientelism. For a long time, a system has been built in which interests rather than law are governed, corrupts are protected and the negative effects of corruption are ignored.
In order to improve the situation, it is necessary to:
- Have well-planned, organized and efficient activity in the fight against corruption involving all stakeholders: the Government, the persecution institutions, the Parliament in its function of supervision and control, independent judiciary free from all influences, non-governmental organizations;
- Reforms in the StateCommission for Prevention of Corruption;
- Raising the collective consciousness which should be freed from the spirit of party obedience;
- The government should ensure full independence in the work of other authorities, in the Judicial and Legislative Authority. A precondition for this is to ensure the capacity, professionalism, resources and full independence of the PublicProsecution as a prosecution authority that should and must act independently of the policy;
- Reform of the administration should ensure integrity and personal responsibility with respect to the institutional setting established by the Constitution;
- To enable the smooth functioning of the Special Prosecution as a separate unit within the Public Prosecution in order to complete the already initiated pre-trial procedures;
- A court decree on cases such as “AFIS” and “Banks”, which have been in pre-trial procedure for years. A court decree is required for all cases run by the Special Public Prosecutor's Office.

The fight against corruption in Macedonia in 2017

Transparency InternationalMacedonia on December 28, 2017 held a press conference on the topic "Fight against Corruption in Macedonia in 2017". At the press conference, Slagjana Taseva PhD, President of TI-M pointed out that "The fight against corruption in the Republic of Macedonia is not at the necessary level to enable the development of democratic values and the rule of law. The escalation of this problem is best reflected in the country's tremendous decline in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, according to which it fell for 24 places - from the 66th to the lowest 90th place in the world. This result showed that corruption is a serious obstacle to the rule of law, the development of the economy, investment and democracy. "
The Republic of Macedonia is a society in which relations are based on clientelism. For a long time, a system has been built in which interests rather than law are governed, corrupts are protected and the negative effects of corruption are ignored.
In order to improve the situation, it is necessary to:
- Have well-planned, organized and efficient activity in the fight against corruption involving all stakeholders: the Government, the persecution institutions, the Parliament in its function of supervision and control, independent judiciary free from all influences, non-governmental organizations;
- Reforms in the StateCommission for Prevention of Corruption;
- Raising the collective consciousness which should be freed from the spirit of party obedience;
- The government should ensure full independence in the work of other authorities, in the Judicial and Legislative Authority. A precondition for this is to ensure the capacity, professionalism, resources and full independence of the PublicProsecution as a prosecution authority that should and must act independently of the policy;
- Reform of the administration should ensure integrity and personal responsibility with respect to the institutional setting established by the Constitution;
- To enable the smooth functioning of the Special Prosecution as a separate unit within the Public Prosecution in order to complete the already initiated pre-trial procedures;
- A court decree on cases such as “AFIS” and “Banks”, which have been in pre-trial procedure for years. A court decree is required for all cases run by the Special Public Prosecutor's Office.

25:17

The dispute between Macedonia and Greece, and the future war in Europe

1918 франција и македониа - 1918 france and macedonia

Macedonians belong to the "older" Mediterranean substratum...Macedonians are not related with geographically close Greeks, who do not belong to the "older" Mediterranenan substratum...
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Geography Now! ISRAEL

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Geography Now! ISRAEL

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Experiments in Legal Pluralism: Sharia Law as Minority Right in Interwar Yugoslavia

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OSLO. Sea levels will rise between 0.7 and 1.2 metres in the next two centuries even if governments end the fossil fuel era as promised under the Paris climate agreement, scientists said on Tuesday ...Ocean levels will rise inexorably because heat-trapping industrial gases already em­­itted will linger in the atmosphere, melting more ice, it said. In addition, water naturally expands as it warms above four degrees Celsius (39.2F) ... ....

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The Slovenian parents of first lady Melania Trump are legal permanent residents of the United States which have raised some questions about whether they are living in the U.S ... "I can confirm they are green card holders and legal permanent residents of the United States," he said, without explaining further how the family got those green cards. Advocates for limiting even legal immigration to the U.S....

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